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This is an authentic, glass-framed aluminium airframe parts and engine parts which one still has some of its green paintwork remains very clear to see. These are very rare parts to get from an aircraft that was recovered on television on a timeteam dig in 1999.This aircraft also has the link to the very famous Great Escape in 1944 and the even rarer bit is a copy of the original combat report when this aircraft and Roger Bussell its former pilot were both shot down minutes apart.

The aluminium and metal parts have torn away by the impact of the crash but remains in good, solid condition. They have been carefully cleaned while preserving its original character and wartime patina.

The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information also many pictures including the recovery of the aircraft and a brief highlight section of the combat report and on the back is the full report a complete copy of the original. Making it an excellent display piece and a rare one for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 13 inches by 13 inches.

The parts are from RAF Spitfire P9373 flown by pilot Paul Klipsch who was wingman of Roger Bushell at the time and this aircraft was his before they swapped over Roger Bushell’s maps were found in the cockpit when it was recovered in 1999. Both spitfires and Bushell himself were shot down on 23rd May 1940 over France during the Dunkirk pocket evacuation.

Squadron Leader Roger Bushell was a brilliant, South African-born lawyer and British Royal Air Force pilot who became one of the most resilient thorn-in-the-side figures to Nazi Germany. A fluent German speaker and elite skier, Bushell was given command of the RAF's premier No. 92 Squadron in 1939. His front-line combat career was tragically short; on 23 May 1940, during a fierce aerial dogfight defending the Dunkirk evacuation beaches, he shot down two German aircraft before his own plane caught fire, forcing him to crash-land in occupied France. Captured immediately, Bushell refused to accept captivity and launched multiple daring escapes—once nearly reaching the Swiss border and another time evading capture for eight months in Prague with the Czech resistance—before being sent to the maximum-security Stalag Luft III camp. There, under the code name "Big X," he masterminded "The Great Escape," a massive, highly sophisticated operation involving 600 prisoners digging three tunnels simultaneously (Tom, Dick, and Harry). Though 76 men famously broke out in March 1944, Bushell was recaptured and subsequently murdered by the Gestapo on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler. His indomitable leadership later immortalised him as the inspiration for Richard Attenborough’s character, Roger Bartlett, in the 1963 classic film The Great Escape.

The aircraft intricately tied to Bushell's fateful final mission was Supermarine Spitfire Mk. I, serial number N3194 (codenamed "Z"). Powered by the iconic Rolls-Royce Merlin III engine, this particular Mark I variant was the 435th Spitfire ever constructed and represented the absolute cutting edge of British aviation technology at the dawn of the war. It featured the classic elliptical wings and nimble handling that allowed Bushell to aggressively engage Messerschmitt fighters over the English Channel. On that same mission, Bushell was leading a formation that included Spitfire P9373 (coded "GR-H"), a sister aircraft piloted by 24-year-old wingman Sergeant Paul Klipsch. While Bushell's N3194 was lost to the earth after his forced landing, Klipsch's P9373 was violently shot down in the same dogfight, claiming the young pilot's life on his very first day of combat. Decades later in 1999, the deeply buried wreckage of P9373 was archaeologically excavated for the television programme Time Team, pulling remarkably preserved personal artefacts and mechanical components from the French soil to finally piece together the full story of Bushell's tragic final patrol.

This is a nice and very rare massive centre fuselage section from beneath pilots cockpit the aluminium and steel structure section with lots of its blue undercoat primer paint remains this was only used by Japanese air force. The part still has its steel connector bracket on one side and is a few parts still connected together it has been nicely cleaned and retains a lot of its original colours it has ripped, bent and smashed by the impact of the crash it is 26 inches by 10 inches in size and is perfect for display and a rare one for the collection. The part has been recovered from the crash site of a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter shot down and crashed during the air war over the Island of Guadlcanal from the 1942-1943 battlefield. A very rare part to get hold of from the war in the Pacific.. The part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with pictures and diagrams.

This is a very rare Navigation equipment panel with maker label attached to the back of it still with most of its maker markings clear to see. The panel is located in the middle of the fuselage in the Navigator’s position.

This aluminium made panel is missing all of its part attached to front of it and has some damage from the impact of the crash it has ripped and bent. The panel still with lots of original black paintwork it has been very nicely cleaned but is still dirty in places from the recovery but still retains a lot of its original colours and is a nice size at 11 inches long by 6 inches wide it is perfect for display or any collection. The panel is from German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 Condor number 0140 on return from patrol crashed in to mountains in Norway on 27 December 1942.The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information cards with pictures also diagram and map.

On 27 December 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 Condor (Werk-Nummer 0140, code F8+AK) belonging to the Luftwaffe unit 2./I./KG 40 crashed into Mount Kvitanosi in the Stølsheimen mountains of Hordaland, Norway. The maritime patrol aircraft struck the mountain slope in severe winter weather while returning to its base at Stavanger-Sola. Out of the six crew members on board, four were killed—including pilot Oberleutnant Waldemar Hackel—while two injured crewmen survived a grueling trek down the mountain to find help. Today, wreckage remains on the mountain, though significant sections (including the port wing) were recovered in 2009 to aid in a major Fw 200 restoration project.

• Fatalities (4 KIA):

  • Oberleutnant Waldemar Hackel (Pilot / Officer in Command)

  • Unteroffizier Adolf Liebscher (Pilot)

  • Feldwebel Erwin Kopp (Radio Operator)

  • Gefreiter Karl Pech [1]

• Survivors (2 injured):

  • Unteroffizier Walter Schwartz (Radio Operator)

  • Gefreiter Fritz Albrechts (Mechanic)